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Global smartphone growth stalled in Q4, up just 1.2% for the full year: Gartner
Feb 21, 8:30AM
Gartner’s smartphone marketshare data for the just gone holiday quarter highlights the challenge for device makers going into the world’s biggest mobile trade show which kicks off in Barcelona next week: The analyst’s data shows global smartphone sales stalled in Q4 2018, with growth of just 0.1 per cent over 2017’s holiday quarter, and 408.4 […]
JD.com's drones take flight to Japan in partnership with Rakuten
Feb 21, 8:23AM
Chinese e-commerce company JD.com is taking its drone delivery system to Japan. Rakuten, the Japanese e-commerce giant, just announced a partnership with JD that will see its drones and unmanned vehicles become a part of Rakuten’s own unmanned delivery service efforts. JD has been operating drones in its native China for a number of years, […]
Clutter confirms SoftBank-led $200M investment for its on-demand storage service
Feb 21, 5:09AM
There’s plenty of speculation right now around apparently disgruntled investors in SoftBank’s Vision Fund, but the drum continues to beat and the checks continue to be written. The latest deal for the $100 billion mega-fund is Clutter, an on-demand storage company that pulled in $200 million in new financing for growth. Eagled-eyed viewers will recall that […]
Companies including Nestle, Epic and reportedly Disney suspend YouTube ads over child exploitation concerns
Feb 21, 4:14AM
Days after a YouTube creator accused the platform of enabling a "soft-core pedophilia ring," several companies have suspended advertising on the platform, including Nestle, Epic, and reportedly Disney and McDonald's. Nestle told CNBC that all of its companies in the U.S. have paused advertising on YouTube, while a spokesperson for Epic, maker of the massively […]
On-demand logistics startup Lalamove raises $300M for Asia growth and becomes a unicorn
Feb 21, 1:00AM
Lalamove, a Hong Kong-based on-demand logistics startup, has closed a $300 million Series D round as it seeks expansion across Asia. In doing so, the company has officially entered the unicorn club. Founded in 2013 by Stanford graduate Shing Chow, Lalamove provides logistics and delivery services in a similar style to ride-hailing apps like Uber […]
This robotics museum in Korea will construct itself (in theory)
Feb 21, 12:49AM
The planned Robot Science Museum in Seoul will have a humdinger of a first exhibition: its own robotic construction. It’s very much a publicity stunt, though a fun one — but who knows? Perhaps robots putting buildings together won’t be so uncommon in the next few years, in which case Korea will just be an […]
Security token offerings aren't looking much better in 2019
Feb 21, 12:04AM
Pressed to explain who is using them, and why, 99 percent of cryptocurrencies let out all their air, go flying around the room making a raspberry sound, hit the wall and fall behind the couch forever. The party is over. A few, however, can present a credible use case. "Tokenized securities" could be one of […]
Can you guess which face is real, and which is computer generated?
Feb 21, 12:01AM
Computers have recently gotten much, much better at a somewhat unsettling skill: generating fake human faces. As in, creating an image of a human who has never existed before. We saw the concept go a bit viral this week with ThisPersonDoesNotExist, a website hooked to a machine that generates a new face every few seconds. […]
On-demand shuttle startup Via enters South American market
Feb 20, 11:46PM
Via, the on-demand shuttle startup backed by Daimler, has expanded into South America. The company launched a service in Goiânia, Brazil with HP Transportes Coletivos, one of the country’s largest public transportation operators. Via says the service, called CityBus 2.0, is the first on-demand shuttle system operated by a public transit operator to launch in Latin […]
Trustpilot is revealing more data about how businesses flag reviews
Feb 20, 11:14PM
Review site Trustpilot says it’s creating more transparency around how businesses respond to consumer reviews. Founder and CEO Peter Mühlmann told me that while “the vast majority of companies” are using their ability to flag questionable reviews in “exactly the right way,” there’s a small minority that are potentially “ruining it for everyone” by aggressively […]
This custom 'hyperfisheye' lens can see behind itself
Feb 20, 11:09PM
If you're doing ordinary photography and videography, there's rarely any need to go beyond extreme wide angle lenses — but why be ordinary? This absurd and unique custom fisheye lens has a 270 degree field of view, meaning it can see behind the camera it's mounted on — or rather the camera mounted on it.
Highlights & transcript from Zuckerberg's 20K-word ethics talk
Feb 20, 11:05PM
Mark Zuckerberg says it might be right for Facebook to let people pay to not see ads, but that it would feel wrong to charge users for extra privacy controls. That’s just one of the fascinating philosophical views the CEO shared during the first of his public talks he’s promised as part of his 2019 […]
Here's everything announced at Samsung's Galaxy S10/Galaxy Fold event
Feb 20, 10:53PM
Missed today’s Samsung Unpacked event in San Francisco? In all, we have five new phones — one of them a foldable — some new earbuds, a virtual assistant and a watch. Here’s everything you need to know. Samsung's Galaxy Fold launches April 26, starting at $1,980 The last time we saw Samsung's foldable onstage, it was, […]
Lyft reportedly plans to debut on Nasdaq next month
Feb 20, 10:31PM
Ride-hailing company Lyft plans to file its initial public offering in March, possibly beating rival Uber to the milestone. Two reports, one from Reuters, the other from WSJ, indicate Lyft plans to list its shares on Nasdaq next month. The WSJ, citing unnamed sources, reported Lyft may make the filing public as early as next […]
Twitter opens applications for its 'prototype' program, first tests to focus on fixing conversations
Feb 20, 10:00PM
Twitter today is opening up applications for its new testing program, first announced at CES in January. The program potentially can cover any and every aspect of the Twitter experience, but the first set of tests will focus on how interactions between people, and specifically replies, appear on Twitter. They will include a new design […]
Samsung's Bixby-powered Galaxy Home speaker will arrive 'by April'
Feb 20, 9:57PM
Samsung announced a lot today. Like a lot, a lot. But the company was pretty quiet on the Bixby side of things, and the Galaxy Home smart speaker it announced mid-last year was nowhere to be seen. In an interview with mobile CEO DJ Koh, however, CNET was able to get a bit of a […]
Uber fixes bug that exposed third-party app secrets
Feb 20, 9:03PM
Uber has fixed a bug that allowed access to the secret developer tokens of apps that integrated with the ridesharing service, according to the security researchers who discovered the flaw. In a blog post, Anand Prakash and Manisha Sangwan explained that a vulnerable developer endpoint on Uber’s back-end systems — since locked down — was […]
The Samsung Galaxy S10 can wirelessly charge other phones
Feb 20, 8:19PM
Hole punches aside, Wireless PowerShare is the S10 line's marquee feature. Samsung's new flagship isn't the first handset with the feature — the Huawei Mate 20 Pro beat it to it by a few months — but it's a cool new addition, nonetheless. And perhaps more importantly, Samsung's beat Apple to the punch here. From […]
Samsung's new Galaxy Watch Active tracks blood pressure
Feb 20, 8:16PM
You've got to hand it to Samsung. The company sure threw a LOT at us during today's Unpacked event — five phones (including the foldable), earbuds, a fitness tracker and the Galaxy Watch Active, the company's latest smartwatch. The biggest news on the watch front finds the company embracing user health, much like the rest […]
The headphone jack lives!
Feb 20, 8:12PM
Reports of the headphone jack's death are greatly exaggerated. Or more accurately, premature. All of the latest versions of Samsung's Galaxy phones are equipped with a 3.5mm port, bucking the trend set by Apple and followed by Google. While the headphone jack might eventually die, right now, in 2019, it's alive and could be a […]
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